It's not my fault that people are perverts.

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

If everyone in New York took sides over these petty, insignificant arguments, no one would have any friends at all.

One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.

When we cannot see the sunshine of God's face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings.

Besides the vocal warm ups, me and my band have a secret hand shake that we do just to get us all pumped. It's nice.

To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

We all live in a little Village.

I will fight to the death for one's right to be able to practice in their temple, their mosque, or in their church, even if they have a different belief than I do.

One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits.

Music was such a love of mine. It was my way of exploring life, my internal world. To be honest, I don't really know why or why not. It's just seems life without it would be death.